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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Utz think his food lacks?
(a) Taste.
(b) Salt.
(c) Pepper.
(d) Vitality.

2. What was the name of Utz's New York dealer?
(a) Dr. Franz.
(b) Dr. Xerox.
(c) Dr. Davis.
(d) Dr. Franfurter.

3. What does the narrator feel in the young people they pass?
(a) Oppression.
(b) Depression.
(c) Optimism.
(d) Freedom.

4. What language does Utz mumble loud enough for the blonde woman to hear?
(a) German.
(b) French.
(c) English.
(d) Czech.

5. What season does Utz say provided the happiest times?
(a) Paprika season.
(b) Sunflower season.
(c) Mushroom season.
(d) Potato season.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Utz go at the end of the chapter?

2. What does Utz's robe have on its shoulder?

3. What does Utz say it is too late for a woman to love him for?

4. Who is Utz's hero?

5. What does Utz say people once believed Crystals turned into?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Utz think porcelain was the Chinese people's material?

2. How does Utz react when the narrator asks to see his bathroom?

3. Why does the woman on the train disgust Utz?

4. How did Utz get a visa to leave Czechoslovakia?

5. Why did Utz decide to leave Czechoslovakia?

6. Why did the makers call the white porcelain porcelain?

7. Describe the porcelain figure Dr. Franfurter sells Utz.

8. What does Utz remember about the mushroom season?

9. How did the German's use Bottger's porcelain during the 1923 inflation?

10. Why does Utz dislike Vichy?

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